Tragedy in Music.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 6, 5 August 1908, Page 32

Tragedy in Music.

A terrible tragedy, reminiscent of Tolstoy’s “Kreutzer Sonata,” occurred on dune 8 at Brum, Austria, owing to the mad jealousy of a lover. Joseph Liza], aged 26, who belongs to a well-to-do family, was engaged to a young widow. She was an accomplished pianist, but Lizal had no ear for music,

and could not distinguish one note from another. On June 8, Lizal's cousin, a violinist, studying in Vienna, arrived in Bruin to pay him a few days’ visit, and Lizal took him to his fiancee, so that she might ■hear him play. The cousin played to the accompaniment of the young widow the whole of the afternoon. The widow was enraptured, and though Lizal suggested that the performance might very properly come to an end, she insisted on the violinist continuing. Lizal. in a frenzy of jealousy, instantly drew a revolver and fired at his sweetheart and his cousin, killing them on the spot. He then attempted to shoot himself, but was disarmed by a domestic, and was arrested.